Covering attachment for seed-planters.



E TAYLOR.

COVERING ATTACHMENT FOR SEED PLANTERS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2 1914.

1,17 9,579. Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

STATES EDWIN TAYLOR, ornnwannsvrnnn, KANSAS.

COVERING ATTACHMENT FOB SEED-ELANTERS.

Specification of Letters Patent. 1 Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

Application filed September 21, 1914. Serial No. 862,714.

2 '0 all whom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, EDWIN TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Edwardsville, in the county of 'Wyandotte and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Covering Attachments for Seed-Planters, following is a specification. 1 p

' This invention relates to covering attachments for seed planters.

Heretofore covering attachments for seed planters have been patented-such for instance as the patent for No. 97 3,821-for use on a particular seed devices have proven impracto the fact that each I proportioned for attachment to a particular type of planter and could not be used upon '1 planters having seed conveying legs of materially different shapes and slzes. In other worclsheretofore attachments of the character under consideration withwhich I am familiar have been secured only to thelegor some other one part of the planter and hence had to be formed and proportioned as explained for use upon such legor part.

1 have found that a practically universal attachment and hence a commercially successful attachment can be produced byproviding means which can be clamped at two points to fixed parts of a planter or drill but that such two-point clamp ,must be of considerable length in order that it shall accommodate structures of materially different forms and sizes, and my object is to produce an attachment embodying a. long which can be secured firmly.

two-point clamp to the hollow leg of a planter or drill and to the runner of the planter or some other stationary part of the drill as the case may be, a further object being to produce an attachment of this character of simple strong, durable and cheap construction which can be readily applied to or removed from any of the approved types of planters or drills on the market.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construction and organization as hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1, is a side view of a leg and of which the simple, practical andclieapest form, I use a Attachment forv seed planters issued tome Oct. 25, 1910,,

runner of a corn planter equipped with a detachable and adjustable covering attachment embodying my invention. Fig. 2, is a plan view. of the attachment. Fig. 3, is a rear view of the attachment and a leg and runner of the planter.

Incarrying out my invention in its most supporting frame or clamp consisting of two bars which stand inparallel or slightly angular relation, and at least one of them is of wood or other compressible material so that it may obtain astrong frictional grip on the parts against which it is clamped. The bars referred to are identified by reference characters 1 and 2 and they are connected at their extremities by bolts 3 engaged by clamping nuts 4. Secured in a substantially verticalposition to the rear end of bar 1 which on a planter will preferably be of wood, and located at the outside ofthe leg 5 and runner 6 of the planter is a bracket 7 provided at its lower end with an outturned, footv 8 in a plane considerably lower than the bars, and said bracket is ed for movement in a vertical plane, the rear end of the upper arm of said frame ter-,-

minating in a-hook 13 adapted to impinge uponv the upper end of bracket 7, whereby the latter is utilized as a means for limiting downward swinging movement of said frame; The lower arm of said frame terminates in an arm 14 which extends outwardly and rearwardly and journaled thereon in the usual or any preferred manner is a disk 15 for turning soil inwardly and filling the furrow produced by the runner 6 or other furrow-opening device of the planter or drill, and for holding the swinging frame pressed yieldingly downward with the hook terminal of its upper arm upon the bracket, is a retractile spring 16 secured at its lower end to the foot 8 and at its upper end to the said hook terminal of the swinging frame.

To secure the attachment to the corn planter as shown, one of the bolts 3 is withdrawn and the attachment slipped upon the leg and runner of the planter at a suitable pointafter which the bolt replaced and nuts 4 are turned to clamp the bars with such friction upon the leg and runner that they cannot slip thereon, and in this connection it is to be understood that the'b olts i ing it upward or downward on "the securing screws, after which the latter arescrewed home to firmly secure the bracket atvthe proper elevation; The appliance is then ready for use and as'it is drawn'across the field the disk will turn-inwardsufficient soil to properly close the furrow and cover the- 7 seed therein. I

When used in connection with a planter the ordinary covering wheel 17 which follows in the wake of the runner will pack the covering soil in place. 'When'used upon a drill the rear portions of the'bars will be clamped upon the leg and the front portions will preferably be clamped to the customary draw bar of 'said leg,-'and in such .use' the clamping bars will usuallyfextend upwardand forward at a considerable angle to ac commodate the position of the drawbar.

In operation the covering disk will be permittedby the spring'to rideover weeds,

sticks and other obstructions,'the spring in-' I stantly returning the disk toop'erative position after passing over an obstruction, so 7 that nom'aterial part or parts ofthe furrow shall be left uncovered, itbeing noted that the vertical adjustment of the bracketenables the operator to control the dep'that' which thediskcoverer operates. I

From the above description willbeapparent that the attachment can be made 1 v I practically as solid and dependable as the integral parts of the planter" or drill. and

can network looseunder the relatively light strain imposed upon it through the operation of the disk, it being apparent that the lnvention is susceptible of modification in Iclaim: f 1. 'A covering attachment for seed planters, comprising a frame for frictional 611-" gagement with the seed-conveying leg and 7 another fixed point'of the planter, a bracket" I 60.

secured to the rear end of the frame, 'a substantially V-shaped swinging framepivotedto the first-named "frame and comprising an *minor particulars without departing from f the principle of construction involved. I v v j '55 upper-arm and a lower arm,a device carried by the lower arm of the swinging frame for turning soil into the furrow into which drops the seed-from the seed leg, and a spring yieldingly holding-the upper arm of said frame down upon said bracket;

ers,"comprising a pair of bars for engaging another point of the seed planter,"connections between said bars rearward of said leg and forward of said other point, a ver- '2 :I

tically adjustable bracket secured'to the rear end 'ofone of the bars, a'frame pivoted to, one of the bars for movement in a vertical plane, a spring for depressing said frame until its downward movement said adjustable bar, and a disk journaled" on said frame and set at an angle thereto to turn the" soil into a furrow into which seed has been dropped.

In testimony whereof, I aflix I Witnesses;

BEN F SHAMB'AUGH, "G, Y; THORPE.

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, EDWIN T YLOR,

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